Date: June 4th, 2009 8:55 PM Author: topaz thriller resort
for me, it's probably either "Soulwinds Legacy II" or "Shimmywhip." some dood was arguing that shimmywhip shouldn't count because it was a collaboration with solzy and that solzy/jewdood wrote half the songs on it, but they acted more like mccheese's studio band on that album than anything else, so i say it definitely counts.
shimmywhip is too poppy for me. i like his prog rock experiment, Jesus Excelsior and the (Song of the Kashgar Temples; Vol. 1-5a: The Hidden Age and Epoch of Folded Steel; A Journey through Nine Dragoned Valleys and the Conquest of Eight) - Memories in the Runes, Part 12.
Date: June 5th, 2009 1:36 AM Author: topaz thriller resort
too poppy?
remember, the radio cut of the title track didn't even appear on the album. the one that goes "SHIMMEH-EH-EH-EH-SHIMMEH-WHIP!"? that's not on the album. that's the retarded ludacris/club remix the label put out for radio play.
the album cut doesn't have a ludacris rap. it's actually really sparse and creepy.
Date: June 5th, 2009 1:39 AM Author: walnut sanctuary
i was a big fan of his big band stuff, especially "in the key of whok." lately though i've been really getting into some of the thelonius spackler sessions. the overall greatest though has to be "the rise and fall of ziggy mccheese" for sure.
Date: June 5th, 2009 1:43 AM Author: topaz thriller resort
the trouble i have with "rise and fall" is its sheer length - 580 minutes!
most of it is pretty good, but you have to admit, there is SOME pure filler in there. not to mention the 2-hour spoken word play/'intermission theatre.'
Date: June 5th, 2009 9:59 AM Author: stirring cuck macaca
yeah, the king of pop won the whole catalogue in a raukus game of strip monkey poker at whok's mailbu house in '87 and he clutches that shit tighter than the the early beatles stuff. you'd have to come up with some choice r@ygold if you wanted to make an exchange.
is mccheese actually going to release an album of big band standards "with a sexual ambient twist" on watchmen's birthday? and if so, are the rumors true that watchmen himself will be vocals AND the sousaphone? watchmen hasn't played sousaphone since college band!
he was supposed to star opposite darryl hannah in an REO Speedwagon video in 1981, but he couldn't stop barfing, and ridley scott replaced him with some douche named bruce boxleitner.
Date: June 22nd, 2009 3:19 PM Author: walnut sanctuary
if i'm not mistaken, this was poasted the same night you passed out in the urinal trough of the club where Mayor McCheese dropped his new single "Windows Security Update Patch IV." if it wasn't for that strange dutch dude telling us he had just pissed on the face of someone we might know in the bathroom, we'd have never found you.
Date: September 11th, 2009 5:23 PM Author: Fuchsia Glittery Space
One foggy winter evening in Antwerp Spackler and I were stumbling from coffee shop to coffee shop when we heard two locals outside whispering something about about "die vreemde dood Nederlands." The faint trill of the alto saxophone was wafting from a nearby alleyway - we rushed down the alley as quickly as our wobbly legs could carry us, but whok had disappeared as mysteriously as he had arrived.
Date: June 30th, 2009 1:36 PM Author: topaz thriller resort
currently listening to: Lone Paiute River Sessions, 1972 demo. it's the one with mccheese's famed "freakout" at the end of the last track - eight minutes of screams, smashed guitars, enraged rants about women and booze, followed by the graphic sounds of mccheese barfing into a hollowed-out amp and being electrocuted.
they say his heart stopped for three minutes before they got it going again.
Date: June 30th, 2009 1:43 PM Author: walnut sanctuary
that was one of the most unnerving episodes we've ever experienced together. at first we all thought he was being playful, but once he started connecting dialectical materialism to categorical imperatives in post-industrial eating utensil designs, we knew he had blown a fuse somewhere.
we were on some heavy stuff those days, good stuff, straight out of vietnam and laos that good ole' boys coming back from the front would give us after shows. that plus how at the time we had reached the zenith of our political consciousness (and arguably the nadir of our moral one) made for a volatile situation.
i really think that episode was triggered 4 days before when mccheese and the dalai lama sat down with representatives from the nixon administration to discuss sino-tibetan relations. he was really on edge, you could see the frailty in his eyes man.
Date: June 30th, 2009 1:51 PM Author: walnut sanctuary
i think it was an accident really since the tapes were rolling anyway, but for as worried as everyone was, in the back of our minds we knew what we were witnessing was some kind of profound reckoning between conception and creation all conducted by a brilliant maestro. it was just so organically stream of consciousness that between all the lines of violent chaos, the kicked-in bass drums, the shattered guitars, broken glass, etc. etc., there was a messenger trumpeting prophetic truths.
mccheese was never really the same after those 8 minutes 31 seconds, but neither were we. it's like we had forgotten how to breath or walk or both and then suddenly relearned it again. it's easy to romanticize the past, but man, everything just folded together then. it was like watching the tectonic plates collide to form the himalayas in real time as immortal buddhas or something man.
Date: June 30th, 2009 2:04 PM Author: topaz thriller resort
you do a good job capturing the mania of those eight minutes. what's really amazing is how mccheese is clearly coming unhinged, but his rants have a shocking clarity to them, as though he were the imperfect vessel overfilled with the perfect anointment oils of a god, but he just started overtopping and fissuring, and what came out was the bloodprint of a sublime wisdom shotgunned against a filthy backalley wall. it was so ugly at any given moment, but in toto, it draws us closer to the deeper truths.
now, i'm going to ask an ugly question, but don't get mad, because these rumors have been around for a long time - is it true that you guys made something of a strategic decision not to cut the power to the amp even as you saw mccheese jabbing at it with his panga and getting ready to puke?
Date: June 30th, 2009 2:11 PM Author: walnut sanctuary
well put.
to answer your question, to say the decision not to cut the power was 'strategic' suggests there was an element of calculation involved. perhaps there was, but it went no further than calculating the sheer brilliance that was being demonstrated before our eyes. the strategic element was primordial in nature. there is an evolutionary basis for the fragrance of flowers, or our aversion to spoiled fruits. i am sure that the curiosity roused by mccheese's outburst wasn't something superficial. in fact, it breached the surface and anchored itself deep within our psyches.
i noted during the congressional investigation that i was not cognizant of what was happening after the 42nd second of the episode. expert testimony reaffirmed this. i can only say that it was the spirit of mccheese, bigger than the man himself, that moved us not only to keep the amp on, but to crank up the juice.
Date: June 30th, 2009 1:57 PM Author: lavender chad
It's a little known fact that he was supposed to sit in for three songs with The Band for Scorsese's Last Waltz. After Van Morrison's segment, McCheese and The Band we're going to play the McCheese originals West Memphis Mud Romp and Journey to the South Pole in Perpetual Darkness before McCheese left the stage only to return in full confederate regalia to sing The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down with Levon Helm. If you look closely, after Ophelia ends and Van stumbles off stage to throw up, McCheese actually comes to prop him up while he hurls. The excess weight of Van, plus the five hour long backstage coke binge, proved too much for McCheese's body, and he suffered a major heart attack on the spot. McCheese woke up three days later in the ICU and to this day blames Van for the whole incident. The two haven't spoken in over thirty years.
Makes you wonder what kind of groundbreaking collaborations the world has missed out on because of McCheese's stubborn view on the whole thing.
Date: June 30th, 2009 1:59 PM Author: walnut sanctuary
what's more is that though mccheese was suffering a massive heart attack and was unconscious, he finished the show to a resounding ovation and got himself to the hospital, not before stopping by a retirement community to give his grandma her favor flowers, tulips.
Date: June 30th, 2009 2:05 PM Author: lavender chad
This is actually totally incorrect and a common misconception among casual McCheese fans, not unlike the lore surrounding Paul McCartney.
McCheese actually NEVER made it to the stage, because Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton were en route to the ER with McCheese's lifeless body in the backseat when his segment was supposed to be recorded. Right around the time Clapton dumped McCheese's body on the doorstep of the hospital, Scorsese forced a newcomer to the scene to take the stage (after hasty deliberation as to who should sing McCheese's parts). Most casual fans think that this newcomer is actually McCheese, but he was in fact, Neil Diamond!
Date: June 30th, 2009 2:08 PM Author: Fuchsia Glittery Space
This is an urban legend that stretched credulity . McCheese is far too recognizable for this to work - you think Neil Diamond just sprouted a 6 foot fu manchu on demand?
Date: June 30th, 2009 2:11 PM Author: lavender chad
ever wondered why McCheese's admittedly premature death certificate and autopsy from that day describe McCheese as devoid of pubic hair?
That, my friend, is the 6 foot f manchu you speak of. Took Scorsese a pair of garden shoes and a bottle of elmer's glue and a little bit of film magic, but by god he pulled it off
Date: June 30th, 2009 2:15 PM Author: lavender chad
I heard when they cut his pubes McCheese suddenly broke out of his coma and, in pain, let out a blood curdling scream before slipping back into a catatonic state
it took 3 adrenaline shots to the heart and the smell of a freshly baked apple pie to resuscitate him later that day
Date: June 30th, 2009 2:25 PM Author: Hyperventilating navy national idea he suggested
is this in reference to the time that mayor mccheese in a drunken rage supposedly raped julia stiles in the ass with a broken bottle because she didn't buy apple jacks?
Date: July 1st, 2009 10:08 AM Author: topaz thriller resort
currently listening to: I Am Mayor McCheese; We Are Mayor McCheese - American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Benefit Concert
this was the 1986 benefit concert that marked mccheese's comeback after his first liver transplant.
it's not a great album; much of it runs toward "we are the world"-themed sap, and the all-star cast of singers really isn't put to great use on most of the tracks.
but tracks 7-10 are stark, disturbing gems - they actually wheeled mccheese up on stage in his ICU bed so he could do those four songs playing only a small mandolin and the original harmonica he used on his teenage debut album "Listen To That! The Fast Tijuana Stylings Of Guillermo Alcalde McQueso de la Talavera y Jaen, RKO Records' Youngest Harpmaster"
rather than doing a preplanned medly of earlier hits, he did an impromptu four-song cycle taking place in an alternate reality in which his transplant had failed, and he had been buried prematurely in a coffin before waking up.
really, really disturbing stuff. but the songs themselves were lovely.
Date: July 1st, 2009 11:45 AM Author: walnut sanctuary
when i used to play minor league ball, they'd play the first 11 seconds of "Listen To That! The Fast Tijuana Stylings Of Guillermo Alcalde McQueso de la Talavera y Jaen, RKO Records' Youngest Harpmaster" while i stepped up to the plate.
remember when tipper gore kept harping on his novelty single "forest of dicks" during the congressional hearings on obscenity in music in the 80's, then when mccheese showed up to testify, he dressed up like oliver north, and jessie helms nearly hopped over the bench and attacked him?
Date: July 2nd, 2009 12:12 PM Author: walnut sanctuary
fack yes man. this was right around the time me and The Whokster were renting a place off of dupont and we decided to sit in the gallery that day. thank god they didn't have tasers or much security to get in to the halls of congress back then.
after the hearing, when the cameras weren't rolling, helms confronted mccheese with a giant wooden paddle, like something out of little house on the prairie or something. rumor had it that helms's daughter sneaked out to a mccheese unplugged event at camp bewbntit and fell in love. helms was incensed! after muttering some crap about 'circumsized heathen homoantichristcommiepinkosaytpd' he lunged for mccheese's healthy bosom.
for some reason Whokster had a jar of tartar sauce from our fish fry the night before in his blazer. when helms lunged, me and Whokster sprang to mccheese's defense. i held off capitol police and Whokster smeared tartar sauce all over helms's face, in his ears, and then did the most courageous thing ever. Whokster stopped pummeling the senator, hugged him, and licked tartar sauce off of his earlobe.
after the initial shock, mccheese was overcome with emotion. everyone was at that point. i looked into the eyes of the capitol police dude whose nuts i had clenched in my fist. i let go. we hugged. everyone gathered around and held hands. mccheese then started humming kumbaya. helms licked the tartar sauce from his lips and sang too. afterward, up until helms died, mccheese and him would meet up every year at a lodge in montana for a weekend to produce bedtime lullabies under the pseudonyms 'radek & radek radek.'
luckily some of the singing was caught on tape, which is now housed in the national archives. they won't be released until january 1st, 2013. at first it was supposed to have happened in 2011, but some congress intern dude named 'deepxoxo2012man' messed up the filing. oh bureaucracy!
Date: July 2nd, 2009 6:34 PM Author: topaz thriller resort
currently listening to: Captain Eunuch And The Search For The Perfect Peen
this is his notorious comedy concept album with the Route 66 parody "Forest of Dicks" mentioned above.
though not particularly bracing by today's standards, it was a big shock for such a prominent artist to release such a vulgar record back in the early 80's. but the various boycotts and album burnings by christian groups only added to mccheese's fame.
threads like this are way i pay rach $89.99 per month to subscribe to this site. and don't give me that "blah blah, rach doesn't charge subscription!" flame. yes he does. it's $89.99 per month, rising to $105.99 in august.
Date: July 5th, 2009 7:23 PM Author: topaz thriller resort
currently listening to: The Slander Tapes
this is the banned album where mccheese inexplicably seeded the songs on this straightforward blues-themed rocker with lyrics defaming and libeling various celebrities and public figures, including his notorious claim that actor don ameche and cult figure vincent price engaged in oral sex "behind the boathouse every friday, not a friday ever comes where knobs ain't getting slobbed."
this was the basis for the later 90's alt-rock hit "possum kingdom" by the band toadies.
mccheese was sued no less than 25 times over this album, and lost every single claim.
this, of course, plunged him into bankruptcy and led to his second great depressive phase.
Date: July 7th, 2009 3:27 PM Author: topaz thriller resort
currently listening to: SHOVE!
this was mccheese's derivative, late 90's "electronica" collaboration with fatboy slim, the crystal method, the prodigy, and eiffel 65.
it's really quite a terrible album, but it is notable for a four-minute stretch on track six that is nothing but a series of extreme and rapid bass blasts that have been known to cause animals to run away from home.
Date: September 11th, 2009 5:30 PM Author: Fuchsia Glittery Space
"but it is notable for a four-minute stretch on track six that is nothing but a series of extreme and rapid bass blasts"
I remember it well -- "What If (The Caveman Remix)." McCheese refused to give wmtp his much-deserved co-author credit on that track. A decision he'd come to regret when wmtp, hopped up on Pixie Stix and rage, broke into David Geffen's personal vault and ripped the master tapes to shreds with his bare hands.
Date: July 10th, 2009 11:06 AM Author: walnut sanctuary
sometimes i wonder if we were ready for it. even the most avant garde of nyc's experimental opera community thought mccheese's 1963 NEXT. LEVEL. SHIT. was too thematically obtuse. it wasn't uncommon for people to wonder aloud as to whether an entire operatic plot could be comprised of aboriginal men doing cartwheels through a series of abacuses swinging from wires while three dwarfs hula-hooped rings of fire on unicycles.
i'll admit, i liked it a lot but i don't think i'm serious enough to appreciate its real NEXT. LEVEL. SHIT. meaning. for me, it was a freakshow, it was mccheese as he was wont to be -- a simple man wearing a kangaroo costume while he worked his halal food stand down by wall street.
Date: July 13th, 2009 4:38 PM Author: topaz thriller resort
currently listening to: Lipids - The Science Album
mccheese had to record a children's science album in the late 1980's due to a court settlement after he broke his contract to appear as a regular guest on sesame street.
with the help of nobel laureate in medicine michael stuart brown, mccheese introduced children to the world of cholesterol chemistry, including detailed accounts of the posttranslational processing of the LDL receptor in familial hypercholesterolemia.
this album is credited with creating a surge 20 years later in graduate students studying lipoprotein chemistry, inspired by their fond memories of this childhood album.
Date: July 13th, 2009 4:57 PM Author: lavender chad
Fantastic album.
Little known fact about Lipids:
In '83, after the nasty Pink Floyd breakup, McCheese's friendship became a huge point of contention between the bandmates. It was actually McCheese that hooked up Syd Barrett with his first hit of acid! But that is a story for a different time. Long story short - Roger Waters won McCheese's friendship from the other members of the band after a drunken night of terrorizing London's homeless in Roger's replica batmobile.
The two collaborated on Science. It wasn't McCheese's first concept album, but it was definitely his most Pink Floydian. The album is bookended by two similar tracks (think Shine on you crazy diamond or pigs on the wing, here is where the heavy pink floyd influence can be seen). The two tracks - entitled "I am forced away from myself (a return to hydrophilia)" - encase the rest of the album, which deals with hydrocarbon chains, passive diffusion, etc..
When you look at the track listing this way, it becomes apparent that the structure of the album is the same as the phospholipid bilayer of the cell membrane, the most basic building block of all life!!!!
McCheese's genius, as most people tend to overlook, is as evident in his subtlety as it is in his avant garde stylings.
Date: July 13th, 2009 5:06 PM Author: lavender chad
Ironically, it is widely speculated that he lost out on the grammy because the establishment deemed the Lipids single "Sterol - more important to life and society than abortion" too edgy for an album aimed at 7 year olds
Date: July 13th, 2009 5:22 PM Author: walnut sanctuary
dude if you play variations on mccheese I through IV simultaneously, in reverse, and at 2x speed, mccheese hammers out the schedule for the vegas conferences through 2241 in morse code, including detailed agendas and his recommendations for BIGVEGASBRUNCH.
Date: July 13th, 2009 5:24 PM Author: lavender chad
yeah dude but I am too fucking scared to try it, empirical evidence suggests a 50% outcome of comprehending the date vs a 50% outcome of developing debilitating schizophrenia (though there is evidence to suggest this just encourages already underlying tendencies)
Date: July 16th, 2009 8:20 PM Author: topaz thriller resort
currently listening to: Tras Las Rejas Del Amor ('Prisoner of Love')
this was the spanish-language album mccheese released around the same time as the movie "La Bamba," as he attempted to cash in on the brief infatuation with mexican music.
unfortunately, mccheese refused to release this album on either CD or magnetic tape formats, maintaining that mexico "does not have that sort of technology yet," and would therefore be inauthentic. this led to a boycott by mexican groups and limited vinyl record sales.
Date: July 16th, 2009 8:29 PM Author: Fuchsia Glittery Space
Again, are we counting albums released as "Senor Con Queso" or is this Mayor McCheese specific? If you'll recall there was some speculation at he time that McCheese was in a group home for the blind due to a misunderstanding involving a pair of sunglasses and three dozen whippits. None of which explains why side two was sung entirely by the guy from the Micro Machines commercial.
Date: July 21st, 2009 4:55 PM Author: Fuchsia Glittery Space
Ironically, I grew up without a single Mayor McCheese album in the household. Dad wouldn't allow it. Said that you couldn't experience the real McCheese just listening to the records, you had to FEEL it.
And that's how a young Dean Bittermen ended up spending the first four months of 1983 secreted inside a bass amp, touring central Asia.
Date: July 21st, 2009 8:31 PM Author: topaz thriller resort
currently listening to: Turkeyshoot (Guns God'n Gizzards)
mccheese released this album several months after sept. 11, as "ARE COUNTRY" fervor began to simmer up money to the likes of toby keith and comedian jeff foxworthy.
however, some say mccheese took his songwriting to extremes. his lead single "Hey Mr. A-rab, Fuck You'n Yer Camel'n Yer Country!" was a barnstorming country rocker that attracted criticism from various groups of communists and malcontents even as it rocketed up the charts.
however, it became clear that mccheese had not entirely cast off the influence of leftist bien-pensants, either - in 2003, he sharply rebuked republican presidential candidate tom tancredo for using his song "These Colors Don't Run - Nah; Fuck That; They Shoot Yer Border-Hoppin' Wetback Ass! Hey Spics, Get The FUCK OUTTA MAH COUNTRY!" during campaign stops, noting that tancredo had "clearly failed to understand the song's subtext."
Date: July 28th, 2009 1:27 AM Author: topaz thriller resort
currently listening to: A Church Sermon (Sunday 1974)
mccheese briefly became a seminarian and baptist preacher in the mid-1970's after renouncing his "lifestyle of ruin" which had carried on throughout the 1960's.
on this album, he turned the little-known biblical story of habakkuk into an epic song cycle centering around the bizarre idea that the prophet habakkuk was, in fact, God. and that the conservation between habakkuk and God indicated a schizophrenic dialogue within God's own mind.
for this heresy, mccheese was literally chased out of his small winona, mississippi church by a pitchfork-heavy mob and was shot through both buttocks while fleeing, a fact which writer gore vidal found endlessly amusing.
Date: July 28th, 2009 1:27 PM Author: walnut sanctuary
i can't get mccheese's 1992 single 'the street beside the bay, rubbing shoulders with the sea, foggy breezes coming to me, coming to me: meditations atop twin peaks illuminated by the flashing warning beacon of the golden gate -- or: etudes and attitudes, why was there no sour cream at the taqueria?' out of my head. i just keep bopping to its melody and repeating the chorus. i'm happy mccheese decided to revisit his earlier emphasis on melodic composition after his rhythmic era.
for having such a long winded title, the song is a surprisingly terse love story. it's anchored by the extended metaphor of the 1988 yellowstone fires as a man's manic episode of creative destruction after realizing the girl he truly loved was more imagined than real. mccheese has that rarefied ability to make the profound catchy.
Date: July 29th, 2009 4:24 PM Author: walnut sanctuary
man i'm envious. while i was scaling el cap in yosemite, i was bopping my head to mccheese's "the eagle's ascent" album. i decided to go with the original 1976 version instead of the remastered one that came out in the early 90s. the 6 tracks where mccheese simply reads from the book of genesis in aramaic while dj jazzy whok lays down a beat made up of ambient noise recorded at night in the namibian bush was almost too much for me to handle. i actually started crying 3/4 of the way up when an eagle glided past me as mccheese sang the chorus of track 9, "notarized n' notorious"--
Date: July 29th, 2009 4:32 PM Author: lavender chad
3,000 feet up bereishitting in a tube eating cold vienna sausages crying on a ledge suspended by 10.5mm kernmantle rope praying the cams hold while the eagle dives for the squirrel with three lines on his back
Date: August 9th, 2009 3:31 PM Author: topaz thriller resort
currently listening to: Names - Chronicles Of Those Whom I May Have Murdered
in the late 70's, mccheese contracted a particularly virulent strain of tuberculosis, likely from a third-world whore. he then inseminated untold hundreds of others with this strain while traveling the world as the UN's special rapporteur on the elimination of polio.
however, far from being apologetic on his album, mccheese used his songs to lambaste the dead for their weak immune systems and failure to adhere to their medication regimens.
when questioned by reporters, mccheese stated that "God don't make no junk, and TB don't kill nothing BUT junk - so what does THAT tell you?"
mccheese later blamed his callousness on stress caused by his own TB, which eventually led to a double lung transplant and 15 minutes of clinical death on the operating table.
Date: September 1st, 2009 4:00 PM Author: topaz thriller resort
currently listening to: Nudes - An Intimate Sketch Of Myself
mccheese announced shortly after madonna's "erotica" album that he would also release a series of nude photographs of himself in conjunction with a new record.
however, when the album shipped, buyers soon discovered that while the jewel cases contained a large 100-page booklet loaded with graphic nude shots of mccheese in a variety of poses and locations, there was no actual audio media included.
the subsequent outrage forced mccheese to throw together a hasty selection of outtakes and rejected tracks, which was then offered at a discount to buyers of the booklet.
when asked why he hadn't simply released a book, mccheese replied that "Most Americans are illiterate; those bookstores might as well be selling Chinamen eyecharts."
oddly enough, sales of the songless jewel cases did not slow down after mccheese's bait and switch had been revealed.
Date: September 10th, 2009 8:52 PM Author: topaz thriller resort
currently listening to: My Indictment
in 2002, mccheese was indicted on a variety of federal weapons, racketeering, smuggling, and conspiracy charges.
on the advice of his attorney, Johann Whokebe (later disbarred), he was told to write an album in which he'd admit to the bulk of the charges, but "make them sound hella walls-to-the-balls fucking awesome" in order to "prep" the jury pool for nullification.
songs such as "The Good Shit (I Import Cocaine Through Biloxi)" and "A Gunsmuggler's Detailed Confession" instead seemed to work against him, as mccheese was convicted on all counts and sentenced to 55 years in federal custody.
however, the convictions were overturned and mccheese released as part of a settlement relating to his videotaped sodomization by investigators and guards.
Date: September 11th, 2009 4:38 PM Author: Fuchsia Glittery Space
"on the advice of his attorney, Johann Whokebe (later disbarred), he was told to write an album in which he'd admit to the bulk of the charges, but "make them sound hella walls-to-the-balls fucking awesome" in order to "prep" the jury pool for nullification.
songs such as "The Good Shit (I Import Cocaine Through Biloxi)""
Jesus Christ. I know Evan2001 the poaster. I know solzy the poaster. I've seen each of them at the top of his game. You, sir, have surpassed them both.
Date: September 11th, 2009 4:40 PM Author: walnut sanctuary
it's a seriously inspired fucking work. and it's not one-off either. consistently brilliant. epic. grand! the stuff of mfing LEGEND. it's like the sandlot:
"Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die, follow your heart kid, and you'll never go wrong."
Date: October 27th, 2009 11:21 AM Author: trip frisky gaping set
"Jesus Christ. I know Evan2001 the poaster. I know solzy the poaster. I've seen each of them at the top of his game. You, sir, have surpassed them both."
Date: September 11th, 2009 6:25 PM Author: Dashing locale bbw
I just finished reading this thread for the first time. I frequently had to remind myself to breathe. Recounting the legendary career of McCheese was a genuine privilege. While solzy brought the 180 next level shit he so often does, Whokster was something special here. I generally make poasters prove themselves over time, but fuck that. This thread has changed my entire outlook on xoxo. Whokster has created a new paradigm here.
Date: September 29th, 2009 6:30 PM Author: topaz thriller resort
currently listening to: The Excavations (Workingman's Series, Volume III)
this 1985 album was the third in a series of records dedicated to "the hardy, leathered, squab-stout and well-buttocked American man of hard labor." mccheese had been piqued by the seeming theft of his theme in the 1984 album "Born in the USA" by bruce springsteen, released after mccheese's second Workingman album "Prairie Rocket Riders" (celebrating the men who build america's grain silos).
to one-up springsteen, mccheese planned an epic three-disc album dealing with all aspects of the excavation trades, from septic tank installation to diamond mining. his promotional campaign involved the step-by-step recreation of a mine cave-in and rescue of a child laborer nicknamed Baby Enoch, based on a 1908 incident from rural eastern kentucky.
under the original plan, mccheese's nephew was to play the role of Baby Enoch, shimmying his way into a narrow crevice 200 feet inside of an abandoned mine shaft, followed by a dramatic rescue performed by mccheese himself.
however, the child's father vetoed the idea and began shooting at mccheese shortly after the proposal. mccheese then fled, but later managed to shoehorn his way into Baby Enoch's original mining uniform. he then rappelled down into the shaft and wedged himself into the crevice, planning to allow hunger and desperation to season him for three days before his miraculous escape.
unfortunately, mccheese had become plump on a diet of burgoo, mountain dew, bourbon balls, and derby pie. he became hopelessly stuck.
the day of his album release came and went. sales were brisk due to media coverage of mccheese's disappearance.
two weeks later, a dying mccheese suffering from severe kidney failure was tugged out of the crevice by a production crew working for bruce springsteen. they had been caving recreationally while doing charity work in appalachia.
humiliating photos of a shellshocked mccheese's shrunken genitals - badly diminished by dehydration and showing through a rip in Baby Enoch's trousers - were later published in the spanish tabloid ¡Hola!
Date: February 22nd, 2010 2:24 AM Author: topaz thriller resort
Currently listening to: Ten Sidereal Tracks (bootleg)
In 1972, after his famed freakout, McCheese contacted NASA, and proposed the idea of a song cycle re-recorded on the surface of the moon by the crew of Apollo 17.
After recording separate vocal and guitar tracks, McCheese handed them over in a partially-oxygenated chamber designed to be taken onto the shuttle, removed to the lunar surface, and then played and recorded again while the astronauts collected rocks and played golf. The new tapes would then be brought back to Earth, and McCheese would remix them into a new concept album.
However, upon arriving on the Moon, astronaut Eugene Cernan thought it would be funny to smack the chamber itself with golf balls. The ball strikes eventually shattered the protective case, partially ruining the magnetic media inside.
McCheese was so enraged upon hearing the tapes that he defected to the Soviet Union, using much of his personal fortune to finance their space program, with the goal of becoming the USSR's first astronaut to reach the surface of the moon, along with a macaque named Duckett (on loan on a peace mission from a zoo in West Berlin).
However, the prototype lunar launcher detonated on its platform in today's northern Kazakhstan, badly burning McCheese and incinerating Duckett.
He was then deported by the USSR due to the widespread suspicion that his presence had brought along bad luck, and spent 18 months in federal prison before being accidentally pardoned by President Nixon. Nixon tried to take it back, but was statutorily unable to do so.
Date: June 22nd, 2011 7:51 PM Author: topaz thriller resort
Currently listening to: Mule County America; U.S.A.
In an attempt to piggyback off of the success of Willy Nelson's wildhorse activism, McCheese wrote an album dedicated to "the noble mule and his plight," and signed pre-release promotional deals with PETA, the Humane Society, and a variety of other animal rights groups.
However, these alliances collapsed along with the release of the album's sexually-charged music video for the lead single "Hung Like A Traitor," a highly-eroticized series of vignettes depicting graphic encounters between mules and young women at a barn outside of San Angelo, Texas.
Texas authorities initiated an obscenity investigation, leading to an impromptu press conference at the barn in which McCheese - drunk, nude, and seated atop a tractor with Ray-Ban dictator sunglasses and oversized nipple rings - made a series of bizarre and meandering statements about the lead investigator, calling him "One of those Pol Pot motherfuckers with a bulbous ass," and claiming that "He's the kind of dude that when the elves leave their tree; the rapist is him."
Animal rights groups then turned their fury on McCheese after it was revealed that his barn was also outfitted with an equine slaughterhouse, and that it had processed dozens of mules during the production of the album. McCheese demurred by noting that "players get paid, and payors gotta pay."
The investigation was dropped after it was revealed that the "mules" shown in the video were actually mule costumes worn by McCheese himself, then re-initiated after it was revealed that at least two of the actresses were 14 at the time of the filming, but then dropped anew after McCheese paid a sufficient bribe.
Date: June 28th, 2011 7:37 PM Author: topaz thriller resort
Currently listening to: The Spirits of the Lanes
In an attempt to cash in on the campy-occult marketing trend spawned by the film "Beetlejuice," McCheese rushed over to an abandoned bowling alley outside of Raritan, New Jersey, where hauntings and mysterious occurrences had been reported by locals. He planned to camp in the structure overnight, recording a series of impromptu songs in the dark, "animated" by what he hoped would be the gloomy moans of trapped souls from a fatal 1947 fire in the structure's bar area.
However, a group of local youths learned of McCheese's plans, and decided to prank McCheese by dressing in bedsheets streaked with neon paint while screaming ghoulishly and pelting him with rotten eggs. Eight of them infiltrated the back of the building a few hours after McCheese's arrival.
All were killed when a freak windstorm collapsed the alley's derelict main hall, with McCheese only surviving because he had already crawled under a counter and swaddled himself in heavy blankets, a product of the "sheltering" instinct which seized him during heroin binges.
McCheese's recording equipment was also demolished, and the resulting album was primarily a series of outtakes from the recording sessions for the "Lipids" album mentioned previously. Critics assailed McCheese for his laziness, noting that some tracks were, in fact, existing songs re-recorded with sound samples from the 1931 film version of "Frankenstein" inserted into the background.